tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post3026581433592559425..comments2024-03-12T19:57:41.861+00:00Comments on THINKING CATHOLICISM: CASINO CATHOLICISMThinking Catholicismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16589713565062075036noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-12186343157590212962018-04-19T14:17:23.332+01:002018-04-19T14:17:23.332+01:00Things like Batman, Superman, Spiderman, Wonder Wo...Things like Batman, Superman, Spiderman, Wonder Woman, and different legends allure a card shark into playing. <a href="https://start.voodoodreams.com/en/?programme=aff&source=netrefer&btag=654752_33CAD2B85FF543F19825742F558B5F55" rel="nofollow">voodoodreams</a><br />sharery dairhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15142148148507019964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-63721221959505572202017-06-25T18:29:27.132+01:002017-06-25T18:29:27.132+01:00You must big the biggest hypocrite of them all Pat...You must big the biggest hypocrite of them all Pat. You spent most of your time chasing the cover of the tabloids. Fame hungry. I'll be surprised if you allow this on your comments which are heavily vetted to allow only people who agree with you on. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-26645111169785298092017-06-23T00:57:52.690+01:002017-06-23T00:57:52.690+01:00Thank you for the gift of your honesty. I hope you...Thank you for the gift of your honesty. I hope you have many great experiences in your work and your vocation. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-69528906973408341412017-06-23T00:04:12.130+01:002017-06-23T00:04:12.130+01:00I appreciate so much how this blog does call Relig...I appreciate so much how this blog does call Religious and ordained members of the Church to live their individual call and role with integrity. I've seen how the lack of this integrity can tear a parish or a religious community apart. I once was taught by a great PP that no sin is a personal sin - he was of the old school and of course he included 'sins' that most of my own generation see little problem with. But applied to this question I agree.<br />Hands up! I'm in final year of formation in a Religious community. I try my best to live my vows to the best of my ability... sometimes I'm more successful at that than others in my vows of chastity and poverty (I'm absolutely rubbish at the whole obedience thing lol).<br />It may seem a weird blog entry to talk about this. But I want to share my testimony of that Clonard Novena and the Redemptorists who host it.<br />When I was 21 and a student in Cork (a while ago!!!) I was suicidal because I couldn't accept let alone embrace my sexuality. The Reds have a community in Cork working with and for young people. As a trainee youth worker I did one of my placements with them. They saw something was up, and the Redemptorist heading up the project came to me to talk. He was the first person I ever told that I was gay. The parish I came from was great but like most young gay Catholics it was far from welcoming of anyone who identified as anything other than hetero. When I told that priest I expected to be sacked from my placement. Instead it was the first time that I was told that not only was it okay to be gay and Christian, it was part of my offering to the world in my ministry. <br />I'm sure there are other Christian communities out there that are welcome spaces for people who are gay. I will never forget how that priest welcomed me and walked with me to come to terms with a part of my identity that I had been taught to hate.<br />I grew up wanting to give my life to the Lord and his people. After this accompaniment I entered formation with the Reds and was there three years in Dublin. Was it a perfect community? Not at all, and no Redemptorist would tell you it was.. but I was loved for who I was, enabling me to live celibacy with honesty and authenticity. I left them in 2003, for the simple reason that I didn't feel called to the Redemptorist ministry.<br />And now to Clonard... a place were I was embraced and loved when I cam back North. While in their midst there were brothers and priests who were far from a joyful example of their call, the majority of priests that I met there were so genuine. I'll always remember Al Reid stopping the work he was doing to sit and have a chat with me whenever I'd come in (I worked with the young people on the peace line at the time). I've never felt judged in that place. I've met men who have walked with me on many difficult parts of my life journey. And, despite my years as one of their students, they were some of the first to bless me as I entered the community I'm in now. I didn't experience the place as a casino - but a place where I still feel at home. I was never forced to give money there (I did because it felt like home). The people and the brothers there in the most part were so down to earth and generous of spirit.<br />I know that this isn't the experience that everyone has. It is only my testimony. I thank God for those experiences of the Reds and Clonard. When I take life vows this coming year I'll do so with some great and humble Redemptorists as an example of authenticity. They are part of my DNA even though I've been called to this new community. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-65184302409746957542017-06-22T10:04:56.498+01:002017-06-22T10:04:56.498+01:00Thanks for that, Pat.. Thanks for that, Pat.. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-1136398519993856672017-06-22T09:49:58.921+01:002017-06-22T09:49:58.921+01:00I believe you and I found no offence in your comme...I believe you and I found no offence in your comment.<br /><br />I believe my hate mail comes from people who do not really practice their faith (unlike you) and from priests and seminarians who are carrying on and don't like it being talked about.Thinking Catholicismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16589713565062075036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-71897591778949563192017-06-22T09:43:51.293+01:002017-06-22T09:43:51.293+01:00Why wasn't that listed building sold and a sim...Why wasn't that listed building sold and a simple one bedroom house bought .what a crass thing to say about giving employment and preventing emigration.that is well below the lowest.<br />What type of house does the wounded Sean live in?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-77680971456593702502017-06-22T00:34:39.328+01:002017-06-22T00:34:39.328+01:00@22.07
"You're dead right.." is the ...@22.07<br />"You're dead right.." is the correct form. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-20639820944651894892017-06-22T00:31:29.618+01:002017-06-22T00:31:29.618+01:00@21.06
I wish to refute in the strongest possible ...@21.06<br />I wish to refute in the strongest possible terms your unreasonable assertion that hate mail sent to Pat must therefore have been posted by "pious Churchgoers". Why would you fall into the easy cliché and jump to such a conclusion?!! I am such a regular Churchgoer as you describe and I often post to defend some principle or practice that I hold particularly dear or to bring back a sense of balance on a day when there has been very virulent attacks on the Church. I would never descend to writing an abusive or personal attack on Pat or indeed on any other poster (though I have occasionally being verbally attacked myself but usually by certain well-known posters who hold vehement anti Church views) Even then l respond in a measured dignified way which shows respect for the person and put my point of view forward in unabusive tone and language. (The very first post of today--may now be "yesterday"-- was written by me at 4.30 this morning and you can read it for yourself. I put forward an amendment to Pat's blog by offering an alternative viewpoint. I did not get the impression that Pat thought it abusive and I thanked him politely for his kind response to me..) Please do not tar loyal Churchgoers with the same unfair suggestion that we must per se be the ones sending in hate mail. That is very unfair. Sending hate mail is utterly reprehensible and causes immense distress and is to be condemned. But furthermore, it solves nothing, convinces no-one and furthers no cause, in my humble opinion. I promise you I am not the only loyal Churchgoer who feels like this. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-86400994003633323932017-06-21T23:56:40.630+01:002017-06-21T23:56:40.630+01:00'By their fruits you will know them', yea?...'By their fruits you will know them', yea? well that applies to ALL CHRISTIANS. hint hintAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-90167897954130428152017-06-21T23:10:17.283+01:002017-06-21T23:10:17.283+01:00The priest gesturing looks as if he has turned to ...The priest gesturing looks as if he has turned to drink. It happens to so many of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-10850531928688991592017-06-21T22:09:01.983+01:002017-06-21T22:09:01.983+01:00Really Pat...its none of their business ...you and...Really Pat...its none of their business ...you and your partner is your life, just like me and my partners is...we are widow and widower together sometimes, apart sometimes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-1515877370917197062017-06-21T22:08:54.851+01:002017-06-21T22:08:54.851+01:0011.42. Indeed May the Lord bless and strengthen th...11.42. Indeed May the Lord bless and strengthen the good lady.Fly on Th Wallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12520198020314816276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-20160738538691431732017-06-21T22:07:56.606+01:002017-06-21T22:07:56.606+01:00@20:38 your dead right! because reporting suspicio...@20:38 your dead right! because reporting suspicions to the BISHOPS SECRETARY is guaranteed to be passed onto the gardai!<br /><br />FOOL!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-62886369031851543782017-06-21T22:05:29.291+01:002017-06-21T22:05:29.291+01:00Why would a servant of Jesus spend lavish amounts...Why would a servant of Jesus spend lavish amounts of money on a building.why even live in a house like that????<br />U are right Pat to highlight this extravaganza <br />And same with Lourdes....the clergy just go there to have a good time. I got my eyes opened when I went there once...the night life seemed to take overAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-61347864516695953362017-06-21T21:53:34.942+01:002017-06-21T21:53:34.942+01:00I was once talking to a friar about my very small ...I was once talking to a friar about my very small nice dancing innocently about in just her knickers pretending to be a ballet dancer. He had a very strange expression on his face. I later heard he had been charge with downloading child porn. I think you sometimes pick up the vibes.janehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05480966555246917336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-57188589845565793662017-06-21T21:42:05.836+01:002017-06-21T21:42:05.836+01:0012.56 Proper order Pat There is no room here for b...12.56 Proper order Pat There is no room here for bullying of any form. I wonder how the alleged potential bullies who attempt to get published on here behave towards those in their personal and professional circlesFly on Th Wallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12520198020314816276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-16691607357129920222017-06-21T21:06:48.581+01:002017-06-21T21:06:48.581+01:00Pat I think you should, as a one-off, publish some...Pat I think you should, as a one-off, publish some of the hate mail you get as an expose of how faithful Catholics BEHAVE towards other people. Nobody who is non-Catholic would have any reason to send you hate mail and it would show the level of nastiness these pious churchgoers reach.<br />Somebody said, By their fruits you will know them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-84413306880661663042017-06-21T20:50:15.699+01:002017-06-21T20:50:15.699+01:00@19:03 the sun is setting on the evil empire of st...@19:03 the sun is setting on the evil empire of st pats seminary. And thank God! That hellhole seems to produce nothing good except cynical anti christian forked tongue cretins...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-40837250345740662482017-06-21T20:38:15.068+01:002017-06-21T20:38:15.068+01:00@17:42 that attitude is what allowed children to b...@17:42 that attitude is what allowed children to be abused, but people like you. Good one "mate".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-26615331461217471312017-06-21T19:36:11.815+01:002017-06-21T19:36:11.815+01:00Not true. My partner of 10 years and I are togethe...Not true. My partner of 10 years and I are together and living together here. Thinking Catholicismhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16589713565062075036noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-69424492474504151232017-06-21T19:03:08.829+01:002017-06-21T19:03:08.829+01:00rumour in Maynooth has it that your partner has le...rumour in Maynooth has it that your partner has left you and doesn't live in your house Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-87298059950189392172017-06-21T17:57:41.977+01:002017-06-21T17:57:41.977+01:00@15.53. "If you're so concerned.." i...@15.53. "If you're so concerned.." is the correct form. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-41196632451820226272017-06-21T17:42:09.905+01:002017-06-21T17:42:09.905+01:00so you go around 'suspecting' people and d...so you go around 'suspecting' people and decide they shouldn't be allowed near children based on your opinion?. Mate you need a word with yourself. <br /><br />How old are you? 12? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3543129696041324861.post-22958067754581678772017-06-21T16:34:58.195+01:002017-06-21T16:34:58.195+01:00I passed it on to the bishops secretary. Strictly ...I passed it on to the bishops secretary. Strictly speaking, it is an opinion of mine, there is no verifiable evidence that he has done anything wrong. However i did raise a formal concern about his suitability with his formators. Is that good enough for you @15:02?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com